Behind the Queen Anne style house on East Town is a carriage house now reborn as a two-story artist workshop, public learning space, and retail arts venue. While the house in front is very Queen Anne—meaning a little bit of everything from brick, stone, clapboard, shingle, terra cotta, irregular shapes, towers, gables, and conical forms — oh, my! — the carriage house is simple and quaint. While Queen Anne houses also followed 17th century English forms that represented quaintness and homey informality, the carriage house invites visitors to fall in love with its quaintness on a more “human” scale.
This area is East Town Street. It has been bisected by the freeway and on the other side is the Bryden Road Historic District. This area was home to prosperous but not ostentatious residents (Broad Street residents were considered the ostentatious ones) and quiet “influentials” during the Civil War such as Ohio Governor Tod and the dry goods merchant, Fernando Cortez Kelton.
By the late 19th century, other famous residents joined them, including the Parsons, Bryden Road residents whose daughter married German royalty; the Hartmans, who made a fortune in patent medicine and whose daughter married Frederick Shumacher; James Thurber’s grandparents who were associated with the wholesale produce business; the Battelles who would later leave a legacy with Battelle Foundation; and the Kilbournes who founded Worthington, Ohio.
Many carriage houses from 19th century mansions can still be seen behind some of the early 20th century apartment buildings in the area.
539 E Town St, Columbus, OH 43215, USA
Columbus, Ohio 43215
Franklin County
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